Enhanced Dynamic Segment Protection in WDM Optical Networks under Reliability Constraints

  • Guo, Lei (Key Lab of Broadband Optical Fiber Transmission and Communication Networks, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) ;
  • Cao, Jin (Key Lab of Broadband Optical Fiber Transmission and Communication Networks, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) ;
  • Yu, Hongfang (Key Lab of Broadband Optical Fiber Transmission and Communication Networks, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) ;
  • Li, Lemin (Key Lab of Broadband Optical Fiber Transmission and Communication Networks, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
  • Received : 2005.07.12
  • Published : 2006.02.28

Abstract

In this letter, we study the protection problem in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks, and propose a novel dynamic heuristic algorithm called differentiated reliable segment protection (DRSP). Differing from previous work, DRSP can effectively avoid the trap problem and is able to find a feasible solution for each connection request. Therefore, DRSP outperforms the previous work. Simulation results have shown to be promising.

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